Word: fillings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...works like this: first a parachute is laid out on the ground with all the shroud lines straight; then it is harnessed to the rider, who stands, sits or stretches out on a flat piece of heavy cardboard. Helpers then lift the chute so that it can fill with wind-all the while chanting "Come and help, Gus!" (the name for springtime gusts in the Rockies)-and away the rider goes over the grass on his cardboard chariot at speeds as high as 30 m.p.h...
Bruce Wiegand (7), Dean Bauer (8) Kent Parrot (9) and Rick Sterne (10) fill out the Crimson lineup in the nonscoring slots...
...Bridal Canopy is a frame story, and the tales that Agnon tells along Reb Yudel's digressive way fill the landscape with a teeming humanity. Like Yudel himself, the characters appeal to readers of any faith: the pompous petty official totally unstrung by the disappearance of his cat; the husband whose love for his sterile wife crumbles at last before the siege of his kin; the cantor whose heavenly voice dissolves the synagogue in tears-and who gets blind drunk on a holy...
...Mexican border in 1916, first to fly more than 100 miles nonstop, first to operate a radio in flight, first to command the fledgling U.S. Air Service First Army in World War I and, before retiring in 1935, the man who selected the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress to fill U.S. needs for a long-range bomber; of a heart attack; at Andrews Air Force Base...
...sense, has Bierce's considerable literary reputation. No one reads him any more. His name rings louder than his works, which fill twelve volumes. In his brisk but superficial new biography Richard O'Connor (Jack London, Bret Harte) does not unwrap the mystery of Bierce's disappearance. But the book does constitute one more testament of faith in the man whose bitter messages to mankind have faded scarcely at all since he set them down...